Today adolescents use a form of chat lingo, which is a faster way to type when chatting online to friends or acquaintances. Do you understand what you read on your child's computer screen? If not, then read my article.

Hearing what your child says is vastly different than listening to them as you multitask. To be an active listener one must stop everything else and focus his or her full attention on the person who is speaking. Learn how to be an active listener.

Age-progression is the process of changing the physical facial features of a person in order to create an idea of what the person may look like now. when a child disappears at the age of 3 and is still missing 11 years later, age-progression can show what he or she would look like now. Find out how.

Alisa Maier's safe return is a testament to the effectiveness an Amber Alert can play in helping a community find an abducted child. Alisa Maier is home safe after being kidnapped by convicted child predator Paul Sterling Smith. Learn how the Amber Alert worked to save this child.

Last week Alyssa Bustamante pled guilty to second degree and armed criminal action in the October 2009 murder of 9 year old Elizabeth Olten in St. Martin Missouri. This means the teen may one day be released fom prison.

The Amber Alert was born out of the horrific kidnapping and murder of Amber Hagerman in Arlington, Texas. Although, Amber's killer remains elusive, this has not stopped Donna (Whitson) Norris, Amberís mom, from crusading for the program that has helped safely recover 554 abducted children.

A father allegedly leaves the keys in the ignition and his two young children unattended inside a car while he is inside an establishment. The car is stolen and an AMBER alert is issued in Springfield Missouri. The children are safe, but should the father face charges?